How to Use thunderous in a Sentence

thunderous

adjective
  • The audience responded with thunderous applause.
  • The crowd was just 4,102, but the boos were thunderous.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2021
  • The noise as fans rose to their feet and cheered was thunderous.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • That was when Watson heard the noise—first the scrape, and then a thunderous boom.
    Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In a video of the speech, thunderous applause can be heard.
    Jacob Henry, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2022
  • Right when the crowd got to the third line of the song, a thunderous roar filled the air at Sandy Promenade.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
  • People a block away from the scene said their homes shook from the thunderous crash.
    Julie Watson, ajc, 12 Oct. 2021
  • House gambles for a steal on the perimeter and takes it coast to coast for a thunderous jam.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
  • With thunderous praise, the group lets go of all its tribulations and thanks to the Creator across the 12 tracks.
    Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In the white-walled halls of a Florida art fair, a thunderous bam!
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • No surprise, the toast and Ryan both got a thunderous round of applause.
    The Editors, Town & Country, 6 June 2023
  • Following the footage, Ford joined the rest of the cast on stage to thunderous applause.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 27 July 2024
  • At the end of the video, the two shared a wholesome hug to thunderous audience applause.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Owen Walsh ignited his team and the crowd with a thunderous slam.
    Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 29 May 2022
  • Every so often, a thunderous smack echoed from the grass in front of them, louder than the rest.
    oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Gorgeously shot, the sound mix is thunderous & the cast all shines.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 July 2022
  • The thunderous roar of stock car engines booming from the diamond in the desert aren’t echoes from the past, but rather the wind of change.
    Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Aurelien Tchouameni put France on the board first with a thunderous strike in the 17th minute.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The boos from the Yankees fans are thunderous, and the cheers are almost as loud when Lindor lets a strike go past.
    Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The drive home would be silent, too, but the refrain playing through my head was thunderous.
    Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 18 May 2021
  • Wiggins, the first screener in the series, then rolled to the rim and threw down a thunderous alley-oop off Green’s pass.
    C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Son of the Century is the tale of how democracy can die to the sound of such thunderous applause.
    Anna Momigliano, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Full-throated cries bounced around the space with thunderous force.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • A second later, the 23 children jolted from one side to the other at the sound of a thunderous crash.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Nnadozie had a thunderous slam in the first quarter over Calvert Hall’s Jonah Biggers to the elation of the crowd.
    Kyle J. Andrews, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At night, lightning scarred the sky, jagged answers to the crack of thunderous questions.
    Jill Talbot, Longreads, 26 June 2021
  • The Beavers showed some life during the final minute, though, as Davis finished a 6-0 run with a steal and a thunderous dunk.
    oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Midway through the fourth, Napoleon threw down a thunderous two-handed dunk to reduce the LEE deficit to five.
    Zach Mason, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • All of this is designed to essentially confine the thunderous low-end to the player's headphones.
    New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
  • When the series premiere opens, we’re greeted with gorgeous raging rivers, plummeting waterfalls and thunderous mountains.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024

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